Sentences with phrase «appropriated classical themes»

Matisse appropriated classical themes — the nude, the still life, the pastorale — but he reinvented and often subverted them with the musical energies of his audacious color.

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Yet there are a good many biblical themes that the concept of divine persuasion can appropriate and illuminate, particularly themes which are a source of embarrassment to exponents of classical omnipotence.
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